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Re: [patch] fastjar documentation
Joseph S. Myers writes:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Matthias Klose wrote:
>
> > hmm, I've been told, that the fastjar diretory should be self
> > contained, so the fastjar docs can be used upstream as well. Therfore
> > the duplicated macros. same reason for including the two texi files.
>
> Is fastjar actually being maintained upstream? If so, it might be more
> appropriate to include a fastjar version number (0.92-gcc is what jar
> --version says at present) in the manual, and not a GCC version number at
> all. If not, questions of what should be different between fastjar
> upstream and GCC can be resolved when fastjar upstream is maintained - but
> I think that the GCC version should not include duplicates of the gpl.texi
> and fdl.texi files in any case, even though upstream may include its own
> copies.
>
> That this patch got the GCC version number wrong (for mainline) should be
> reason enough to show that the number should not be duplicated here.
Is there a recommended way to include the version number?
> > How? using the automake generated Makefile ...
> >
> > I need to add an -I option to MAKEINFO, but MAKEINFO and MAKEINFO are
> > overridden from the toplevel make.
>
> AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS, according to the Automake manual.
the automake manual doesn't say anything about AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS, at
least the 1.4 version. Assigning a value to it simply puts it into
Makefile.in, but nothing more.